PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vioe-Regai,. Tho following received invitations to a dinner party at Government llouso yesterday Mr. and Mrs. J. Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Turnbull, Mrs. C. Phnrazyn.

Tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) ™ Bono to Mastorton. He will return ellington at tho end of tho week. Sir Joshua Williams left for tho south last night. Mr. T. R. Tripe, accountant in tho local office of tho Union Steam Sliip Co., returned from a. holiday trip by the Maunganui yesterday.

The following engagements of tho Anglican Bishop of Wellington (Dr. oprott) are announced in tho "Chiirch Chronicle"November 1, Marton —Confirmation at Huntley School; November 3, Palmorston North—Confirmation; Aslihurst, Confirmation, 7 p.m.; Novomber 5, Otaki—Confirmation; November 10, Wellington—St. Peter's, Confirmation, 3 p.m.; proach, 7 p.m.; November 17, Wellington —P roach at St. Thomas's, 7 p.m.; November 20, Wellington—Mooting of Board of Theological Studios; November 24, Wellington—Confirmation at St. Paul's; November 26, Wellington—Meeting of Standing Committee; November 27, Rhandallah —Confirmation. December 1, Lovin—Confirmation; December 3, Aramoho—Confirmation; December I, Wnnganui—Confirmation; December 5, Wanganui—Confirmation in School Chapel; December 8, Marton; Confirmation (afternoon), Bulls —Confirmation (evening); Deoember 112, Kilbirnde—Confirmation; December 13, Eastbourne—Confirmation; December 15, itarori—Confirmation; December 22, Wellington—Ordination in St. Paul's, 11 a.m. January 7 (1913), Tinui—Confirmation; January 16, Nelson—General Synod. February 5 to 9, Auckland—Mid-day addresses to men in Chamber of Commerce (sth, 6th, and 7th); Mission address to men and women in St. Matthew's ChuTch, evening of 7th; preach morning of 9th; February 16, Pongaroa—Confirmation.

Dr. J. H. Scott, of Dunedin, will bo a passenger for London by tho Arawa, which leaves Wellington at daybreak tomorrow.

Two important appointments havo been mado to tno professorial staff of tho Sydnoy University. Dr. Robert Robinson, lecturer on chemistry at tlio Manchester University, has been selected for tho chair of organic and applied chemistry; and for tho professorship of botany Dr. Anstruther Lawson, lecturer in botany at tho Glasgow University, has been chosen. Dr. Robinson is at present assistant to Dr. Perkins, professor of chemistry at tho Manchester University, by whom ho is very strongly recommended. Dr. Abercrombie Anstruthor Lawson, Ph.D., D.Sc., E.L.S.; F.R.S.E., was born in 1874, and received his university education at Glasgow and in California. He was for some time assistant-professor ~at Stanford Univorsity, and he has done some exploratory work on tho west coast of North America.

On October 23, tho Sydney Amateur Orchestral Society was welcomed back to life and virile activity at tho Town Hall by a fine audienoo (which included Lord and Lady Chelmsford). At its head was Mr. Alfred Hill, who again (says a Sydney paper) proved himself a conductor of virtuosity, animated by an enorgy and magnetism which brought out tlio best in tho forces under his baton. Mr. Hill is the son of Mr. Charles Hill, 6en., and brother of Messrs. S. J., W., and C. Hill, of Wellington.

Dr. St. L. Gribben, of Wellington, leaves by the Arawa for London tomorrow morning.

Cable advice has been reoeived in Auckland of tho death at Dublin of Mr. George S. Otway, fifth sou of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Otway, of Epsom. Tho deceased, who was insncotor for tho Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Company, was well known, and esteemed throughout the Auckland province. His death took placo after an operation, to undergo which ho w6nt Home in April last.

An old and respected resident of Onohunga, Mr. E. P. Gibbons, died on Monday night. Mr. Gibbons lvasiborn at Portugal Cove, near St. John's; Newfoundland, in 1818. He camo to New Zealand with his parents and four brothers ill 1855, landing at New Plymouth, and coming on to Auckland. Tho elder Mr. Gibbons and liis sons were tho pioneers of timber-milling in tho North Island, and established mills at Huia, Waikato, Paeroa, and Swanson. Tho firm also owned several vessels for timber-carrying purposes. Some years ago deceased left Swanson and settled in Onebunga, whero he had resided with his daughter.

Tho death occurred at Dunedin on Monday of Mr. Archibald Hill Jack, who has been prominent in fire and :aarino insurance business in New Zealand for many years. Some forty years ago he camo fiora Australia to open a bianch for tho Victoria Insurance Company, and in 1873 he assisted to form the National Insuranco Company, of which ho was tho first general manager. The deceased was 75 years of age.

Captain and Mrs, Higginson, who have been touring New Zealand, aro passengers by tho Arawa for London. to-mor-row.

A private cable messago announces tho death at Liperick, Ireland, o£ the Very l£«v. Father OTarrell, who was gtio of tho first Rcdemptorist priests to take up spiritual work in Australia. Ho was stationed at Ballarat (Victoria) for 6omo years, where he was instrumental in founding a monastery, and was also at Waratah. Tho deceased was in Wellington for a time, but left for Ireland on his health breaking down, rather OTarrell was G3 years of age. He has a brother in Father Gabriel OTarrell, of tho Dominican Order, now in Ii eland. Solemn requiem mass will bo celebrated at 7 o'clock this morning at the Church of St. Gerard.

Mr. A. J. Stratton, of Hastings (secretary of the Hawko's Bay il-nciiig Club) and Mrs. Stratton, and Mr. T. Taylor (a nephew of Mr. G. V. Donnelly, of llawke's Bay) Toturnod from a trip to England yesterday.

Messrs. G. Stephenson and N. Wellwood, of Hastings, aro visitors to Wellington.

Mr. A'. Linley, under whoso management "Tiny Town" toured New Zealand, has returned to Wellington. Ho reports that the tour was a great financial suce^-

Mr. E. M. Simpson, general manager in New Zealand for tho Phoenix Assurance Co., with Mrs. Simpson, returned from a trip to England by tho Maungamii yesterday. Mr. Simpson states that ho was .unfortunate enough to expericnco on exceptionally bad summer, which had prevented him enjoying his holiday to tho fullest extont. The vagaries of tho weather lasted up to his arrival in Melbourne, where, after a warm timo in tho tropics, the weather geemed bitterly